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His first novel, In a "Hail of Bullets", published while he was still in college, received the Nom DePlume Society's prestigious Tom Straw Award for Mystery Literature.

under which nom deplume he did some of his best writing.

(35) In terms of decorum, they did not merely adopt Tarleton's "extemporizing style" (36) or use "Martin Marprelate" as a nom deplume. As the character predated the writings, (37) the epistles and tracts employing the name of Martin Marprelate positioned themselves to be understood as dramatic monologues that were written for and might be spoken by an already popular, quasi-fictional character, who, like one of Chaucer's pilgrims, was capable of engaging in public argument with persons occupying the non-fictional world.

Under nom deplume, 'Yusuf MD,' he is a poet and writer who has been involved in literary endeavors since his schooldays (he was published in a Singapore magazine as long ago as the 1950s).

Indeed, the French translator of The Satanic Verses sheltered behind Francois Rabelais's nom deplume Alcofribas Nasier, an anagram of Rabelais's own name (2012: 341).

The Argentine writer and politician Gustavo Martinez Zuviria, whose nom deplume was Hugo Wast (1883-1962), was a fervent anti-Semite and Franco supporter whose books sold literally millions of copies.